Starting to feel like home
5 Jan 2023 08:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wayfaringwordhack I wish I had my little "'shroom sweet 'shroom" icon from LJ. Alas I don't have a lot of capacity for such over here on DW.
Anyhow, the start of the week/year has been a bit up and down here. Nothing major, only annoyances coupled with the usual moving stuff. Also, twice Ti'Loup has said he hates this house and has had a couple of meltdowns. But I woke up this morning and thought, "This already feels more like home than Moussa's apartment ever did."
We still have not unpacked everything,* and we are still waiting on our corner sofa,** which means our living spaces aren't set up the way we would like them, giving it all a temporary feel. Not a picture is on the walls,*** but still: feels homey.
I am waiting on the White Sales to get the kids bedding. When I asked about the dates at the store where I want to shop, the saleslady acted like I was out of my mind and such a sale did not exist. Only I know it did because I bought things there last year around this time and saved 30%. A Lebanese friend told me, "Maybe with all the import prices rising, etc. there won't be sales this year." I dunno. The Lebanese love to shop, and we have seen that the current crisis does not affect all levels of the population the same (this is not a store where you go if you are struggling. *I* want to buy the bedding there because SLEEP is important. I threw money at cheap sheets last year and quickly paid the price. This time it is about investment). Will wait and see until the end of the month.
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*The craft room needs unpacking and rearranging as does the hallway niche facing it where all the sporting equipment will go (surfboard, surf-skate and skateboard, swimming and spearfishing stuff...)
** Just five more days. I am hoping for timeliness and efficiency here.
*** I never hung anything up at the other place because it felt temporary from the get-go.
Anyhow, the start of the week/year has been a bit up and down here. Nothing major, only annoyances coupled with the usual moving stuff. Also, twice Ti'Loup has said he hates this house and has had a couple of meltdowns. But I woke up this morning and thought, "This already feels more like home than Moussa's apartment ever did."
We still have not unpacked everything,* and we are still waiting on our corner sofa,** which means our living spaces aren't set up the way we would like them, giving it all a temporary feel. Not a picture is on the walls,*** but still: feels homey.
I am waiting on the White Sales to get the kids bedding. When I asked about the dates at the store where I want to shop, the saleslady acted like I was out of my mind and such a sale did not exist. Only I know it did because I bought things there last year around this time and saved 30%. A Lebanese friend told me, "Maybe with all the import prices rising, etc. there won't be sales this year." I dunno. The Lebanese love to shop, and we have seen that the current crisis does not affect all levels of the population the same (this is not a store where you go if you are struggling. *I* want to buy the bedding there because SLEEP is important. I threw money at cheap sheets last year and quickly paid the price. This time it is about investment). Will wait and see until the end of the month.
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*The craft room needs unpacking and rearranging as does the hallway niche facing it where all the sporting equipment will go (surfboard, surf-skate and skateboard, swimming and spearfishing stuff...)
** Just five more days. I am hoping for timeliness and efficiency here.
*** I never hung anything up at the other place because it felt temporary from the get-go.
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Date: 5 Jan 2023 04:23 pm (UTC)My middle kiddo has expressed a desire for a "nice" bed, and I am happy to make that happen for him (meaning "them," because if one gets something, all will want it).